Book-holder and leaf-turner.



No. 628,73l. Paten ted luly l6, l90l. c. w. HADLOCK.

BOOK HOLDER AND LEAF TURNER.

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' No. 678,73l. P'a'tented July is, new.

C. ,W. HADLOCK. BOOK HOLDER AND LEAF TURNER.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT ()nrrcn".

CLARK WILBER HADLOOK, on NEWTON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR on ONE-HALF TO ALFRED n. SMOLT, or SAME PLACE.

BOOK -HOLDER AND LEAF-TURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 67 8,7 31, dated July 16, 1901. Application filli September 25, 1900. Serial No. 31,018. (No model.)

To rtZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARK WILBER HA1)- LOOK, of Newton, in the county of Harvey and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Book-Holders and Leaf-,

I be, while at the same time the book is securely held in the holder. The leaf-turner is for rapidity in turning one or more of the leaves and holding them secured in place, which in some cases is very necessary, as the following description will show.

More especially my invention is intended for use by railway-conductors to hold their train-books on their writing-boards, so that they can hold their writing-boards on their arms and avoid the motion of the train when in rapid motion. This is especially desirable in freight service, nearly all roads having increased their capacity for handling large trains, which are often made up of onehundred cars or more, and this necessitates the use of more than one page of train-book. The train-book is what the conductor takes the record of freight in of all cars in that train, and all other reports are taken from this book. These records are quite complicated, and they compel the conductor to turn the leaves a number of times. As he generally starts to take the record of his train from the rear end and takes numbers and other required ,records as the cars stand in the train, which, as a usual thing, is badly mixed up of foreign, box, and fiat cars, the work is very troublesome and confusing. All of these numerous reports must be made out and ready to hand in to the head office upon arrival of the train at its destination. This requires a great deal of Writing while the train is under full speed, as when the train is stopping at the different stations the conductors attention is required at some other work around his train. My invention provides a simple and practical construction of book-holder which will greatly scribed.

Figure 1 is a face view showing a writingboard with my book-holder and leaf-turner applied thereto and holding a blank book. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the book-holder and leaf-turner, and Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

The device is made entirely of spring-wire, and it consists of a main frame portion, consisting of a generally U-shaped piece of wire B B B, having its upper ends bent laterally outward and then over to form holder-clamps B B which embrace the side edges of the book. These holder-clamps B have each two loops b b, which are flared the one upwardly and the other downwardly to form a tapered throat to give easy entrance to the two sides of the book, which is slid downinto the holders. These loops are bent out of the same piece of wire. The other half of the main frame is composed of another U-shaped piece of wire O O C. in inverted relation-t. e., the middle part 0 is at the top and the side members 0 O are rigidly fixed to the side members B B by sleeves s s, and the side members 0 O are bent down a distance sufficient to receive a writing-board X or other support for the holder between the lower members 0 O and the upper ones B B, and the extreme ends of the members 0 O are bent upward at c 0 into toes, which are arranged to lock into recesses c 0, formed in the back of the writing-board to prevent the holder from being accidentally pulled off.

In the middle part B of the main frame-section the wire is bent into an outwardly and downwardly projecting bail d, which at d is coiled into an eye, and in this eye is coupled the leaf-turner D, which will be hereinafter described. At the points d d of the middle bail d there is looked around the wire by several coils a third U -shaped piece of wire, whose middle portion is seen at E and whose two prongs E E project up and have a bend in the same. These prongs are designed to be entered above the covers or lids of the This is connected to B B B 7 5 book and beneath the leaves and serve to hold the book down against the holder. This wire piece E also greatly stift'ens the main frame.

The leaf-turner D consists of a single piece of wire bent to form an eye 6, that is coupied into the eye d. The two branches 6 e are embraced by a sleeve 6 and thence are extended divergent-1y and then bent at right angles. One of them is then again bent at right angles, and the other is wrapped around the same in the form of several spring-coils e, and both arms 6 c are then extended at right angles to the portions e e and have formed at their ends circular concentric loops e a which two arms e 6 with their loops 6 0 form by reason of the spring-coils 6 two clasps that embrace between them the page of the book, one loop, 6, being made larger than the other, so as to slightly crimp the page and more firmly hold it. As shown, there is only one leaf-turner; but it is to be understood that as many of them may be employed asmay be desired.

In making use of my book-holder at the top of a writing-board or similar support it not only serves to hold the book, but it also serves to hold blank sheets or record-strips, as seen at G, which are clamped between the lower portion of the main wire frame and the board.

The upper portion 0 of the main frame forms a convenient means for hanging up the book-holder and board when not in use. It willbe understood that my book-holder is designed to be used either with or without the writing-board.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A book-holder comprising a generally rectangular wire frame having downwardlyprojecting clam p-arms on the back side, holdore for the side edges of the book projecting laterally from each side and two prongs rising from the bottom upwardly and adapted to be inserted between the book-covers and their leaves substantially as described.

2. A book-holder comprising a U-shaped wire section having its upper ends extended laterally and bent over to form holders to receive the side edges of the book, an in- Verted- U -shaped wire section rigidly connected to the first named and having its ends extended downwardly to embrace a board or support and another U-shaped wire piece having its ends extending from the bottom of main frame in upward direction substantially as described.

3. A book-holder made of wire and having its side members extended laterally and then bent over and having both in their upper and lower sections guide-loops extended upwardly and flared away from each other to form an entrance-throat for the sides of the book substantially as described.

4. The combination with a booleholder made of wire and having its middle lower portion bent ontwardlyin the form of a hail; of a U- shaped wire piece coiled around the ends of the bail portion and having their projecting ends extended upwardly substantially as described.

5. The combination of a wire-frame hookholder having an offsetting bail at its lower side bent to form an eye, a U shaped wire sec tion wrapped around the ends of the bail and having its ends extended upwardly, and a leaf'turner clamp made in right-angular form of wire bent to form claspsections as described.

6. The combination with a wire book-holder having a loop or eye at its lower edge; of a leaf-turner made of one piece of wire bent to form an eye and coupled into the first-named eye, then having its branches extended divergently and bent twice at right angles, one section being wrapped around the other and then extended as spring-arms and provided with terminal loops substantially as described.

CLARK \VILB ER HADLOOK.

lVituesses:

A. E. SMOLT, I. L. DONALDSON. 

